Famous Quotes & Sayings

Olli Jokinen

It was a wake-up call for us tonight, definitely. We can't take nights off. We have to play hard every single night. And we didn't do it. We have a good record at home. But we have to be a lot better. I have to give them credit. They're a lot better club than their record.

It was a wake-up call for the players who do start. I didn't see it coming. Nobody saw it coming.

It was a wake-up call for our team. Anthony has responded great. There was a whole misconception of that whole deal. Anthony and I have a great relationship. He and the rest of the team took it for what it was: a challenge, a challenge for them to be better.

Ozzie Guillen

It was a wake-up call for everybody. After that, they came together as a team.

Pete Lembo

It was as clear as it gets. It was not a judgment call whatsoever.

It was a rodeo out there. You can't take your hand off your stick and grab a guy by the jersey. We have new rules for a reason. But we've been getting the breaks. You don't get the calls when you get outworked.

David Newman

It was a uniform green last year, as they are in Australia. But this colour we call 'U.S. Open blue' is better at day and night.

John Browning

It was at that point that they noticed that these hard drives were missing, ... They did not immediately call their supervisors, and the lab was closed for two weeks.

It was a smelly affair. I call it an unplanned remodeling.

Jason Elam

It was a smart call because had I missed and they had gone down boom, boom, boom, they could have gotten into field goal position pretty easily,

It was a system that was wide open to fraud. All you had to do was call FEMA on the telephone and lie, and you could get money. It was just a question of how many people were willing to make false statements.

It will be a lot funnier. It will have a lot more raw material, as I call it.

Frank Miller

'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call 'Die Hard' a 'comic-book movie,' when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.

We practiced what they were going to do all week so nothing was a surprise to us. We were able to call what they were doing and we played well as a team.

wake-up call for every guy going through these houses.

Vernon Jordan is an individual who I understand helped Monica get an interview with a public relations firm in New York where she was eventually going to -- and may still -- park herself as an entry-level intern or apprentice, or whatever they call it in that trade.

David Sedaris

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.

The point is that when they talk about quality of health care, patients mean something entirely different than experts do. They're not talking about numbers or outcomes but about their own human experience, which is a combination of cost, paperwork and what I'll call the hassle factor, the impersonal nature of the care.

Martin Van Buren

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.

When you think about it, the only way to get somebody is to stick-check because there's no checking in women's hockey. She was just looking to call everything.

When you're visiting the page of an enterprise software vendor and you want to call their support number, that phone number will be highlighted and you'll instantly be connected.

Gary Condit

When folks start calling my dad a murderer or suggesting my mom and dad had something to do with the disappearance, that's too much, too far, unfair and it's wrong,

We were trying to find a new shoe place and we were calling all these places. They told us they were going to call us and we never got a phone call back. There was always some problem that kept getting in the way.

Nicholas Haslam

People think that buying something for their home which is up-to-date is chic, but often it's a cliche. I call people who simply give clients the current 'thing' stylists not decorators.

Vanderlei Luxemburgo

Whether we play well or not, we have to win this game. We must call on all our fans to create the right atmosphere, as this is like a final. My players are not brimming with confidence but they understand that they have the responsibility of putting in a decent performance.

We're standing in unity with the national movement. But we're not actually calling for everyone to miss work or not go to school.

Pat Robertson

We're getting tons of calls from people not quite knowing what to do,

Pat Riley

When we are in the penalty, you have to go to him as much as you can. We kept trying to call his number.

Ron Gardenhire

What he should do is call me. Not you.

Charlotte Whitton

Call me anything you like, but don't call me a lady.

We found out about the grant really late. For three weeks, I spent every spare minute of my time calling people. Everybody came on board.

We grew up like sisters. My children call her their aunt.

Tim Healy

We felt like there was a foul (before the turnover), but you're not going to get a call like that in those situations.